Soil Health, Soil Conservation and Fertilizers

What to Do?
What Can You Get?
Whom to Contact?

What to Do?

Always use appropriate fertilizer in right quantity based on soil test.
Must use organic manures to maintain the fertility of soil.
In order to get maximum benefit of the fertilizers, always apply in root zone instead of broadcasting.
Resort to judicious and efficient use of Phosphatic Fertilizers for proper development of roots/shoots and timely maturity of crops, particularly the legumes which fix atmospheric Nitrogen for enrichment of soil.
For reclaiming acidic soil, use lime and for saline/usar soil,use gypsum.
Farmers desirous of adopting Participatory Organic Guarantee System (PGS - India) Certification system may form a group of at least 5 farmers and get it registered with the nearest Regional Council or Regional Centre of Organic Farming.

What Can You Get?

S.No	Type of Assistance	Criteria for Assistance/Maximum Limit	Scheme/ Component
	Assistance for soil improvement
1	Supply of gypsum/pyrite/lime/ dolomite	50% cost of the material + transportation limited to Rs.750/- per hectare.	National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP)
2	Plant protection chemicals	Insecticides, fungicides, bio-pesticides, bio-agents, micronutrients, bio-fertilisers etc., @ 50% of the cost limited to ` 500/- per hectare.	NMOOP
3	Adoption of organic farming	Rs. 10,000/- per hectare	National Horticulture Mission (NHM)/ Horticulture Mission for North-East and Himalayan States (HMNEH) Sub schemes under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
4	Vermi-Compost Unit	Rs 50,000/- per unit (having dimension of NHM/ 30' x 8' x 2.5' or 600 cft, on prorata basis)	HMNEH Sub schemes under MIDH
5	High Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE) Vermi Bed	Rs 8000/- per unit (having dimension of 12' x 4' x 2' or 96 cu ft, on prorata basis)	HMNEH Sub schemes under MIDH
6	Promotion of Integrated Nutrient Management	Rs 1200 /- per hectare (upto an area of 4 hectares)	HMNEH Sub schemes under MIDH
7	Supply of gypsum phosphogypsum / bentonite sulphur in wheat & pulses	50% of the cost limited to Rs. 750/- per hectare	National Food Security Mission (NFSM)
8	Micronutrients in wheat, pulses and rice	50% of the cost limited to Rs. 500/- per hectare	NFSM
9	Lime/liming materials in rice and pulses	50% of the cost of the material limited to Rs. 1000/ha.	NFSM
10	Bio-fertilizers (Rhyzobium /PSB)	50% of the cost limited to Rs. 100/- per ha.	NFSM
11	Setting up of new Mobile/Static Soil Testing Laboratories (MSTL/ SSTL) Training	75% Assistance of total project cost to State Govt. for SSTL subject to a maximum limit of Rs. 56 lakhs per SSTL/MSTL.	National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
12	Promotion and distribution of micronutrients	50% of cost subject to a limit of ` 500/- per ha.and/ or Rs 1000/- per beneficiary	NMSA
13	Setting up of state-of-the-art liquid/carrier based Biofertilizer / Biopesticide units	25% of cost limited to ` 40 lakhs per unit for individuals/private agencies through NABARD capital investment of 200 TPA production capacity	NMSA
14	Setting up of mechanized Fruit/ Vegetable market waste/Agro waste compost production unit	33% of cost limited to Rs. 63 lakhs/unit for individuals/private agencies through NABARDas capital investment for 3000 TPA production capacity	NMSA
15	Promotion of Organic Inputs on farmer's field (Manure, Vermicompost, Bio-Fertilizers, Herbal extracts etc.)	50% of cost subject to a limit of Rs 5000/- per ha and Rs 10,000/- per beneficiary. Proposed to cover 1 million ha area. Liquid/Solid Waste compost,	NMSA
16	Adoption of organic farming through cluster approach under Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) certification	Rs.20,000/- per ha subject to a maximum of Rs. 40,000/- per beneficiary for 3-year term	NMSA
17	Support to PGS system for on-line data management and residue analysis	Rs.200/- per farmer subject to a maximum of Rs. 5000/- per group/year restricted to Rs.1.00 lakh per Regional Council. Upto 10,000/- per sample for residue testing (Residue analysis to be done in NABL Labs)	NMSA
18	Organic Village adoption for manure management and biological nitrogen harvesting	Rs.10 lakhs/village for adoption of integrated manure management planting of fertilizer trees on bunds and promotion of legume intercropping through groups/SHGs etc. (Maximum 10 villages per annum/state will be supported)	NMSA
19	Demonstration on Organic Farming	Rs.20,000/- per demonstration for a group of 50 participants or more	NMSA
20	Reclamation of Problem Soil	Alkaline / Saline Soil 50% of cost to a limit of Rs 25,000/- per ha. and or Rs.50,000/- per beneficiary. Acidic Soil 50% of cost subject to a limit of Rs. 3000/- per ha. and / or Rs. 6000/- per beneficiaries	NMSA

Whom to Contact?

District Agriculture Officer / District Horticulture Officer / Project Director, ATMA.

Source: Department of Agriculture & Cooperation

Last Modified : 3/1/2020

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